WARNING: YOU are entering another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind - an election cycle for Pennsylvania governor with multiple candidates.
A YEAR AGO today, a nation fearing a crumbling economy and weary of war awoke to new expectations after electing Barack Obama on a premise of hope and a promise of change.
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PENNSYLVANIA voters yesterday gamely reasserted their right to elect statewide judges, an act akin to playing a political lottery. Fifteen candidates for seven spots on three state courts were on the ballot in a municipal election year with no marquee races to generate voter turnout anywhere in the state.
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POLITICIANS GO ga-ga over sports. From using tax dollars to build stadiums, to attending big games with great seats in owners' or donors' boxes, to inviting championship teams to the White House, the state House, City Hall, wherever.
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THE NASTY RACE for state Supreme Court is making yet another strong case for not electing statewide judges. Pennsylvania, no surprise, is among only a handful of states with partisan judicial elections at all levels.
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IT WAS, for a judicial debate, unusually sharp and bitey. The one and only TV face-to-face between state Supreme Court candidates Democrat Jack Panella and Republican Joan Orie Melvin yesterday at Temple Law School was no warmed-over legal fare - it was pretty politically tart.
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THE QUESTION I get most often these days (actually, for a long time now) is: When does Tom Corbett drop the other shoe?
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WAY BELOW the noise of the national health-care debate and the state budget debacle is a whisper of a race for state Supreme Court with possible loud and long-term impact.
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A RECENT notice from Arlen Specter's campaign caught my eye - an e-mail tag-lined "Arlen Gets Magic." Good thing, I thought - he might need it.
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SOME FINAL, I hope, state budget observations. A Radnor reader writes, "All these shenanigans will in the end be good for the commonwealth."
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I HESITATE TO write this column, for three reasons: I'm running out of adjectives to describe how bad our Legislature is; it gives Gov. Ed the umpteenth chance to say how close we are to passing a now 99-day-late budget; and, by the time I tell you what's happening, something else will have happened to change it.
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John Baer: It's time for the state to OK emergency funds
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HERE'S THE deal. Since it appears that there's no deal to deliver a budget, now more than three months late, even though legislative leaders twice claimed there was and Gov. Ed keeps saying how quickly it can happen, it's time to admit abject failure and act to rescue those most in need - before some tragedy occurs.
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